Friday, July 29, 2016

Lynda Stacey: Learning to Juggle!

Welcome to first time author, Lynda Stacey, who gives us an insight to her life and how she juggles her busy working life.

I’ve worked towards this moment for over thirty years. I ‘m
so proud to be able to finally call myself

an author. I tell everyone that I
meet about my novel, but when I do, I always get the same response. “But, you
work full time; how do you find the time to write books as well?” Well, that’s
easy. I’ve always worked two jobs; sometimes three: I’ve had no choice.

I was married very young. My first husband amongst other
things had Asperger’s syndrome. He had many problems, and life became
unbearable. I eventually found the courage to leave, after which he committed
suicide and I was left with his massive debts he’d incurred. These were debts
that I’d previously known nothing about and at 23 years old, I found myself
with a debt of over £120,000. All of which I found to my horror that I had to
pay back.

I spent the next twenty years doing just that. I worked as a
nurse, an Emergency First Response instructor, and as a model - I know, hard to
believe it now. I worked in bars, nightclubs, laboratories and in later years,
I trained as a PADI Scuba Diving Instructor. I set up my own school, and worked
most weekends. I’ve even taught in open water while snow was coming down
sideways. Crazy you say, yes, I thought I was just a little crazy too.

I’ve always been ambitious, and I did all of this while working
my way up through a company, where I’d begun doing just a few deliveries and a few
sales, to now being the Sales Director for that same company.

So, being busy has never been a problem. I’d had no choice, but
I was proud of what I’d achieved. I’d made my mark on the world and I managed
to pay back all my first husband’s debts, as well as living a reasonable life
with my new husband, Haydn.

However, in 2009, I was involved in a freak car accident
which left me with limited mobility in my right arm. I had no strength to
rescue students and couldn’t risk teaching Scuba any more. My school had to sold
and for the first time in my life, I had nothing to do.

This is when I once again began writing.

My
writing week

I work full time, five days a week and finish somewhere
between five and six o’clock, I then go home, make tea, tidy up and by 6.30pm I
sit down to relax. This is when I write and even though I have a perfectly good
home office, I prefer to sit on the settee, with my laptop on my knee. I never
work to a word count, I can’t. Some nights I only get an hour in which to
write, some nights I get three or four hours. It all depends on what else is
happening, and of course, how much time I spend on both Facebook and Twitter.

My main writing time is on a Saturday or Sunday morning. I
tend to get up very early, at around six o’clock. This is MY TIME, the time
when no-one else is around, no television to spoil my thoughts and no one else
who I need to talk to. It’s during this time that I tend to go back over the
work that I’ve done during the week, and I edit as I go. But when I type the
words ‘THE END’, I know that it doesn’t really mean ‘THE END’.

All ‘THE END’ really means is that the story has found its
final chapter and that then, as we all know, is when the hard work really begins.

Lynda x

Biog:

Lynda, is a
wife, step-mother and grandmother, she grew up in the mining village of
Bentley, Doncaster, in South Yorkshire. Her own life story, along with varied
career choices helps Lynda to create stories of romantic suspense, with challenging
and unpredictable plots, along with (as in all romances) very happy endings.

Lynda joined
the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writers' Scheme in 2014 and in 2015, her debut novel House
of Secrets won the Choc Lit & Whole Story Audiobooks Search for a
Star competition. She lives in a small rural hamlet near Doncaster, with
her husband, Haydn, whom she’s been happily married to for over 20 years.

This is your time to tell and sell stories and, given the way you have tacked everything else in your life, you'll keep at it and succeed. I loved The House of Secrets and think your step up onto the writers' ladder is well deserved.

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